The fabulous Winner’s prize this month is your choice of IndigoBlu stamps.As always, you have 3 options to choose from:

1: 2 Large stamp plates

or
2: 4 Small stamp plates

or

3: 1 Large and 2 small plates

There’s also the Winner’s Badge, and one for the Top 3, to display proudly on your blog,and the WINNER of the challenge will also be invited to do a GUEST SPOT on a future Challenge Launch post.That’s right, your work will be on the Challenge Blog alongside the Design Team!

Also the Top Three each month (chosen by the DT) will all be invited to do an inspiration piece to be included on the new reminder post that now goes live mid challenge. So, if you’d like a chance to be featured on the IndigoBlu Challenge Blog get those stamps out and get creating!

You’ll find all the information on how to enter the challenge,the rules (don’t worry, there’s not that many) and get to meet the Design Team in the tabs above.

Last month's winner, Shelagh, has made this beautiful piece of artwork for us;

Here is what she had to say:

Hi, Shelagh Metselaar here. A big thank-you to IndigoBlu for
selecting my card as the ‘Glitz and Glamour’ winner and for sending my
selection of stamps as a prize; to say I was surprised and delighted to win is
very much an understatement and to be invited to design a project for this
challenge is an even bigger thrill – oh! and the perfect excuse to forget the
housework and craft for a legitimate reason! I must admit the theme did have me
pondering for quite some time as my stash of IndigoBlu stamps is quite eclectic
and nothing seemed to fit however after much head-scratching, a ghost of an
idea formed and from there on in, it was all inks to the canvas!

This project was quick to realise, once thoughts and
materials were gathered (omitting drying time.)

Extras:-

·Deep photo frame

·Pebeo Fantasy Prisme Pale Green

·Mod Podge Sparkle

Instructions:-

1.I painted the canvas with water then dropped on
the greens in areas allowing the variety of shades to fuse and keeping the
blue-greens towards the top.

2.Once dry, I stamped the ‘Stylised Flowers’ four
times (‘off the page’) using Versamark Black and embossed with clear detail
embossing powder. The butterfly was stamped three times using Versamark and
heat-embossed using ‘Twinkling Green.’ The clouds were stamped twice, again
with Versamark then heat-embossed using ‘Twinkling White.’
3.At this point I blended Ranger Distress ‘Pine
Needles’ and ‘Black Soot’ around the edges.

4.The flower stems were out-lined on one side with
a white pen; the seed-heads were outlined with the Mixtion and once dry but
still tacky, silver leaf was applied. The same was applied to the centre of
stems but once dry, green leaf was applied.P

NB The silver leaf looks white on the photo – oh! the joys of photography!

5.I stamped the butterfly three times onto
heat-proof acetate, embossed with the green powder as before and cut the images
out. I folded the wings back and
attached them over the image on canvas with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

Extras:-

To finish the project, I painted the frame with pale green
‘Fantasy Prisme,’ the second coat stippling the paint to create the illusion of
texture. Once dry, I applied Mod Podge ‘Sparkle’ to add more interest. I removed the two peripheral acetate butterflies,
placed the canvas inside the frame then glued butterflies over their stamped
images but on the frame.

I hope you find the above useful and feel encouraged to
‘have a go.’

Thank you,

Shelagh.

What a beautiful piece of artwork from Shelagh for us this month, a huge thank you for being a guest designer this month, and congratulations on your prize again.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Today we have for you some wonderful inspiration for this months challengeA touch of Red. You still have about a week until the challenge closes, you can enter the challenge HERE, or by following the instructions in the above tab and e-mailing us your entry.

First up, and in no particular order we have Claire:

Its such a pleasure to be joining the
fabulous Indigo Bluebelles as Guest Designer this month. This challenge was a
great excuse to use some of my favourite Indigo Blu stamps too. I began by
stamping the A6 Poppy Heart stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and coloured the
image with alcohol markers before distressing the edges with my craft knife and
matting on black card. I created a background with the gorgeous English Flourish
stamp, using black archival ink on white card. The next layer was made using the
A6 Harlequin stamp, again with black archival ink on white card. I've used black
card to mat and layer and then added some lace, ribbon and a little paper
poppy.

Thanks again, I'm chuffed
to bits to be GDT as I adore Indigo Blu stamps

crafty hugs

Claire xx

Next up it's Theresa:

I decided to go with the valentines's theme. I had bought this heart stamp
from IndigoBlu that I was itching to use. So I got out my brushos and decided
to go with 3 colours. I used brilliant red, yellow and a green.
I
spritzed the canvas with water and then sprinkled a few crystals of each and
spritzed again with water. I kind of created little puddles of colour and
then breathed heavily over thus creating the splatters.

I stamped heart onto
tissue with black archival ink and when the canvas
was dry I stuck it down
with modpoge. I inked the bubble stamp with glue and stamped it randomly
along edge of the canvas. Once it had 'cured' for a couple of mins I used gold
and variegated green gilding flakes.
I finished it off by adding some
pearls to create more dimension.

This is my little project that i have
wanted to realise for a while and I hope you like it.

The background I've inked on Indigo Blu stamping card. First the
'Harlequin' background was stamped using Vintage Photo distress ink, and then I
used Antique Linen distress ink applied with an inking tool. On top of that I've
stamped the 'Script' using Black Soot distress ink. This background is then
matted on to red card leaving a very fine border.

The White Rabbit is from the stamp plate 'Alice 11' and is stamped and cut
out then details coloured using Barn Door distress marker. The character is then
3D'd on to the background.

The butterflies are stamped from the 'Butterfly Collector' plate, cut out
and coloured with Barn Door distress ink, and adhered to the background with
their wings raised.

I hope you will agree there is some fab inspiration here from our top 3 winners from the Glitz & Glamour challenge. Very talented peeps! Thank you so much ladies for taking the time to do this for us, your work is beautiful.

And remember, this could be you next month! Just hop along and join us in the challenge HERE. xx

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Today we have for you an inspiration filled post full of fabulous makes from the demonstrator team for the latest challenge, Number 24. A Touch of Red. Have a look at the fabulous work then join in the fun of the challenge! You can also visit our Demonstrator team's own blogs by clicking on the link below their picture, if you want to learn more on how they made their inspiration piece.